Mladenovic has been struggling with a bad back since the eve of the tournament and served 16 double faults. - Reuters picPARIS, June 6 ― Three things to watch out for on day 10 of the French Open today.
Never mind the 16 double faults, Kristina Mladenovic downed defending champion Garbine Muguruza 6-1 3-6 6-3, sending the Roland Garros crowd into raptures as their darling reached the quarter-finals of the French Open on Sunday. Raonic advanced when Spain's Guillermo Garcia-Lopez retired from the match due to a left thigh injury.
The 13th seed came close to losing in both the first and third rounds and must now refocus for the quarter-finals.
Two weeks past his 21st birthday, unseeded Karen Khachanov of Russian Federation became the youngest man to reach the French Open's fourth round since 2009, beating 21st-seeded American John Isner 7-6 (1), 6-3, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (3).
- The Serbian second seed will meet Austrian Dominic Thiem in the next round.
Anointed as the player to take over Williams' mantle, Muguruza has subsequently failed to reach a single final at any tournament.
Caroline Wozniacki and Cici Bellis will have to try again on Saturday after their match was called off because of rain with Wozniacki leading 6-2 2-5.
- Venus also lost to the Swiss at the same stage at Roland Garros a year ago.
The fourth-round clash was eagerly anticipated and did not disappoint, with Mladenovic eventually emerging as the 6-1 3-6 6-3 victor in front of an excitable crowd on the Suzanne-Lenglen Court.
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Put it all together with his unusually tenacious, crablike forechecking style, and you have one odd hockey player. The game seemingly was destined for overtime until the deciding play of the game and the series took place.
The Czech Republic's Karolina Pliskova, seeded second, beat Carina Witthöft of Germany 7-5, 6-1.
Caroline Wozniacki, with two slam finals now the most experienced player left, continued her fine year with a surprise 6-1 4-6 6-2 victory over 2009 victor Svetlana Kuznetsova.
Kuznetsova will meet the victor of No. 11 Caroline Wozniacki and American teen CiCi Bellis.
"I finally got my third win in a row. Hey".
He wasted three of them serving at 5-4 up, and three more when serving at 7-6.
Meanwhile, Croatia's Petra Martic will face women's fifth seed Elina Svitolina in the fourth round after beating 17th seed Anastasija Sevastova 6-1 6-1. Khachanov converted 1 of 6 break points on Isner's serve, but that was enough.
- Isner bows out as the player with the most aces at Roland Garros so far. I'm going to have the experience of what it's like to be in that situation.
Fellow former slam winners Svetlana Kuznetsova, Venus Williams and Sam Stosur also suffered defeat, at the respective hands of Caroline Wozniacki, Timea Bacsinszky and Jelena Ostapenko.
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